WEBVTT HERE IN THE STUDIO WITH WHAT THEPLEA DEAL MEANS.ROSS: IN EXCHANGE FOR THE PLEA,WASHINGTON HAS AGREED TO TESTIFYAGAINST TWO OTHERS TEENS IN THECASE, INCLUDING ALLEGED SHOOTERBYRON MCBRIDE.WASHINGTON TESTIFIED MCBRIDEUSED A CELL PHONE TO TAKE PHOTOSOF THE DEAD BOY'S BODY.A GUILTY PLEA FROM ONE OF THETHREE TEENAGERS CHARGED INCONNECTION WITH KINGSTONFRAZIER'S MURDER.>> THIS WAS A HEINOUS, NEEDLESSMURDER OF A SIX-YEAR-OLD.THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN THISCASE AT ALL.ROSS: D'ALLEN WASHINGTON PLEADEDGUILTY MONDAY TO ONE COUNT OFACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT TOKIDNAPPING.>> MY CLIENT, HIS MOTHER, HISFAMILY HAS ASKED ME TO EXPRESSTHEIR DEEPEST AND SINCERESTCONDOLENCES AND EXPRESSIONS OFGRIEF.ROSS: INVESTIGATORS SAY KINGSTONFRAZIER WAS KIDNAPPED FROM HISMOM'S CAR IDLING IN THE I-55KROGER PARKING LOT LAST MAY.OFFICERS LATER FOUND THE6-YEAR-OLD BOY SHOT TO DEATH.HE WAS LEFT IN THE BACK SEAT OFTHE STOLEN CAR ABANDONED INGLUCKSTADT.>> THERE ARE NO WORDS TO EXPRESSTHE AMOUNT OF GRIEF ANDSUFFERING THAT THE FRAZIERFAMILY HAS GONE THROUGH.ROSS: WASHINGTON'S ATTORNEYWARREN MARTIN SAYS HIS CLIENTTHOUGHT SUSPECTED TRIGGERMANBYRON MCBRIDE HAD DROPPED THEBOY OFF SOMEWHERE.>> THEY GO BACK TO MADISON WITHTHE UNDERSTANDING THE CHILD HADBEEN RELEASED, AND IN FACT THECHILD HAD NOT BEEN RELEASED.IT IS ONLY WHEN MR. MCBRIDE BACKIN THE VEHICLE HEADING SOUTHDOES MR. MCBRIDE PRODUCE HISPHONE, WHICH SHOWS PHOTOS OF THEDECEASED CHILD.ROSS: UNDER WASHINGTON'S PLEADEAL THE 18-YEAR-OLD AGREED TOTESTIFY AGAINST MCBRIDE AND DWANWAKEFIELD.>> THE KINGSTON FAMILY HAS LOSTFOREVER A SIX-YEAR-OLD THATCOULD HAVE GONE ON TO DOWONDERFUL THINGS IN LIFE.ROSS: PROSECUTORS SAYWASHINGTON'S TESTIMONY COULD BECRUCIAL IN MCBRIDES' UPCOMINGTRIAL.

D’Allen Washington, 18, pleaded guilty Monday in Madison County Circuit Court to one count of robbery and one count of accessory after the fact to kidnapping. The robbery charge is not related to the Kingston Frazier case, Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest said.

Washington will testify against suspected shooter Byron McBride, 19, and Dwan Wakefield, 18, who is also charged with accessory after the fact, Guest said.

“He gave a statement under oath about his involvement and the involvement of the other defendants,” Guest said. “We felt like, based upon the view of the case and our conversations, that this would allow us to shore up and be able to seek the death penalty against the shooter in this case, Mr. McBride.”

Washington faces about 15 years in prison as part of the deal, prosecutors said. A judge will sentence him March 26.

“There are no words to express the amount of grief and the amount of suffering that the Frazier family has gone through. My client, his mother (and) his family has asked me to express their deepest, sincerest condolences and expressions of grief as it relates to the passing of this child,” Washington’s attorney, Warren Martin, said. “That said, my client’s involvement in this is limited. He has agreed to turn state’s evidence. He will cooperate with the state, will offer testimony against the other two co-defendants as the state proceeds with charges against them.”

Kingston was shot and killed May 18. He was asleep in his mother’s car when it was stolen from the Kroger on I-55 in Jackson, investigators said. Kingston’s body was found hours later in the car, which was abandoned on Gluckstadt Road in Madison County, authorities said.

Martin said Washington was not involved in Kingston’s kidnapping or killing and did not know the child was in the car when it was stolen. Martin said McBride later told Wakefield about the child, but said Wakefield and Washington wrongly assumed that McBride had released the child. They didn't learn otherwise until after they picked McBride up in Madison County, Martin said.

“That’s a pretty scary picture. From what my client paints, he paints a story of Mr. Wakefield driving a vehicle, visibly sobbing and my client and Mr. McBride engaged in a verbal altercation as it relates to why Mr. McBride would do this to a child,” Martin said. “They go back to Madison with the understanding that the child had been released, and in fact, the child had not been released. It’s only when Mr. McBride is back in the vehicle there on I-55 heading south, does Mr. McBride produce his phone which shows photos of a deceased child.”

Washington was originally charged with capital murder, along with McBride and Wakefield. Prosecutors lowered the charges against Washington and Wakefield after it was determined that they were not present when Kingston was shot and killed.